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    On that subject, does anybody hate the term “Sprint” as much as I do?

    “Sprints” are extremely quick events that last tens of seconds and are done at most once a day, but more often (in competition) a few times a month, or a few times in a day every few months.

    You don’t sprint for a full week every week. That’s a marathon, maybe an ultra-marathon.

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    “Well, to get people to consider if our method is potentially applicable to their situation and needs, we need to give it descriptive names that sound dynamic and cool to get their attention. If it’s not right for their needs they’ll disregard it of course.”

    The business idiots: “Hmmm, yes, fancy words, trendy, apply it immediately to everything so I can say I “over saw implementation” on my resume next time I hop jobs”

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    From experience most hate from project management systems come from people just don’t understand it and implement it poorly. Usually the miss the point. Unfortunately those are the people who need the structure the most.

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    Screenshotting a text post on the Fediverse, to post an opaque image on the Fediverse.

    The post was right there to be shared.

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      Especially when they’re called “standups” but everybody sits down because they typically last an hour or so.

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      I did have actual stand ups once, after coming back from China and all I could think of was “shit I hope they don’t make us sing the corp’s anthem at the end!” like they do over there…

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    You forgot “We use JIRA so we are agile now. I assigned all tickets so get to work and be done at the end of the week sprint”

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      The one I like is “we have no fucking idea what we’re trying to build other than a vague problem statement, so start testing already. This is Agile.”

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        ”Our plan is to continuously make up new shit along the way and hope we eventually get something we can deliver”

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    It’s agile if the plan is constantly reviewed with every new information in mind and you can change what you are working in to better implement it.

    If you do do Scrum, that’s almost never the case.

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      I had the misfortune of working under SAFE – Scalee agile or something. It was waterfall wearing a festive and extremely expensive Agile mask.

      I think more than 60 devs all working in the same codebase, a trading platform, and doing planning sprints individually, playing planning poker to estimate feature of features of features up to three months in the future. Most ridiculous thing I ever participated in and that says a lot.

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        I’m not super fond of SAFE either

        waterfall wearing a festive and extremely expensive Agile mask.

        Is exactly the experience I had in my last two shops.